Re: [sieve] On "reject" and :fcc

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> > And such messages can and often do contain part or all of the original
> > message, creating exactly the issue I've been talking about.

> So we're back to this then.

This has been the issue from the start.

> Do you also object to websites saying "404 not found"
> while still logging the fact that you tried to look at a resource?

Nope. But the situations are not remotely comparable. No users involved, just
for starters.

> Sometimes you want to keep the junk that was sent to you while saying to the
> sender that nobody got that message.  Making that hard within the standard will
> just cause people to work around it by doing things like capturing all mail that
> hits the MXes before sieve processes it.  Not providing a facility because it can be
> used to lie doesn't change that.

As I said before, if you really think it's perfectly OK to provide a mechanism
to your users that allows them to instruct the system to lie in an offical
system message about them not having gotten the content of a mail message, then
we have nothing further to talk about.

				Ned